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Open Source is ... open source.

There is nothing wrong with chucking money at Archive to help with costs, provided that money does not come with menaces. The basic idea is that if you profit in some way from an open repository of ... something then why not contribute to it? If enough people/orgs contribute then we are all good. Otherwise, if the org behind the project is an individual doing it as a hobby and they can't afford to continue then they might need support.

In the end Archive and co have costs attached. You don't have to contribute but it might be nice if you did.

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Public money indirectly comes from the most profitable companies, so it's not as bad as you suggest. I'd also say there are worse freeriders of academic research in the economy than big tech.

> I'd also say there are worse freeriders of academic research in the economy than big tech

Are you talking about Elsevier, et al. How dare you?

> Public money indirectly comes from the most profitable companies

(In the U.S.) Corporations only account for 6% of federal tax revenue (https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/us-tax-revenue-by...).

And probably the most profitable companies are the ones that are the best at skirting corporate tax law...

There's sales tax for customers, income (and payroll) tax for employees, and then taxes on dividends, and then capital gains on stocks. Low-margin SMEs contribute proportionately very little tax compared to Google when we account for tax contribution this way.

Employees payroll and income taxes come before margin?

I guess you're referring to my specification of low-margin. As I also specified SME, what that means is both low-margin and low-revenue. And the true intented meaning is that all cash flows one might want to tax (mostly with progressive rates) are small.

> And the true intented meaning is that all cash flows one might want to tax (mostly with progressive rates) are small.

rates become high fast enough for employees of sme to start paying substantial taxes, and payroll taxes don't have progressive rates, and ss is actually regressive tax.

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